Shaheed Bhai Jagroop Singh Kalakh
Written by Sunny Singh, edited by Kharak Singh Jalwehra.
Shaheed Bhai Jagroop Singh Khalakh was a Kharkoo who was feared by the bad and loved by the good in the Sangrur district of Malwa belt and the town of Ludhiana. He was a lt. general of the Khalistan Liberation Force under Shaheed Bhai Gurjant Singh Budhsinghwala. His area of operation was the district Sangrur, in which his hometown Khalakh was situated and the industrial town of Ludhiana. Many Singhs like Bhai Manjinder SIngh Issi (alias Comrade, the one who was one of the main masterminds behind the 1991 kidnapping of Romanian diplomat Liviu Radu from New Delhi), Bhai Harnek Singh Bhap (currently in Nabha Patiala Jail), Bhai Jarnail Singh Gwaddi and many other Singhs from Ludhiana worked under Bhai Sahib.
Bhai Sahib was martyred along with a fellow Singh of the KLF, Bhai Jangjit Singh Dakha in a fierce shoutout with the Ludhiana Police on the 25th of June, 1991. This encounter happened near village Bunga in the Malerkotla sub-division of Sangrur district. The security forces had much trouble stopping many Hindus and Sikh villagers coming to the village Kalakh to pay their respects to this Mahan Shaheed (Great Martyr) of Kalakh. Bhai Sahib never killed anyone just because of their faith, instead they even helped many Hindu families, from whom fake militants used to extort money. Bhai Jagroop Singh Kalakh was a proper militant who never killed or harrassed any innocent person.